With 660,000 sketches, etchings, prints and other works by artists like Munch, Kirchner, Picasso, Warhol and Rembrandt, it's one of the world's largest museums dedicated to prints and drawings.
The Kupferstichkabinett (literally the 'copperplate engraving cabinet') was visited by Australian musician Nick Cave on Tuesday ahead of a concert in the city.
"As he takes the stage at Berlin’s Waldbühne this evening, we feel especially grateful that he chose to visit us," the museum wrote in an Instagram post showing Cave leaning over a Botticelli drawing of Lucifer from Dante's Inferno with a magnifying glass.
Cave, who lived in Berlin in the 1980s, is currently on a European tour.
The Kupferstichkabinett - or Cabinet of Prints and Drawings - is one of Germany's most significant art collections, with some 550,000 prints as well as around 110,000 drawings, watercolours, pastels and oil sketches.
"Printmaking from all periods and schools is represented in the museum's collections in an overwhelming quality, scope, and diversity," the museum says.
The museum says the prints and drawings are sensitive to light. "For this reason, and due to the sheer scale of the collection, the museum’s works are not on permanent display."
Instead, the Kupferstichkabinett holds temporary exhibitions and displays of works from its collection. However, visitors can also study original artworks of their choice in the study room.
The museum is located at the central Berlin tourist area of Potsdamer Platz - also home to a cultural hub called the Kulturforum, incorporating several other sites like a sculpture garden, the Museum of Musical Instruments and the Gemäldegalerie with European paintings up to the 18th century.
Visitor information: The Kupferstichkabinett, like many museums in Berlin, is closed on Mondays.
